Irony is a mockery. A peculiar word game when good, positive describing human qualities, or giving the speech of the word situations in a completely opposite value. The irony is usually expressed allegorically, in words there is a hidden subtext that needs to be revealed and unravel to understand the true essence of things.
Manifestations of irony
How irony can manifest themselves, given that this is a veiled mockery, ridicuing some negative human qualities or actions. So, we give a few examples:
The man committed something out of a series of outgoing, not incoming in any framework, stupid or strange. You can say about such a person: "Yes, you are geniant, damn it!" So, in this case, the mention of genius is irony.
In the case of frankly stupid man. If he doesn't shit at all, but it does not intend to admit it and tries to insert his stupid five kopecks in any conversation, then such an personality is usually said: "You are not a smart one." This will also be irony.
If the schoolboy renovated and he threatens the challenge of his parents and an unpleasant visit to the director on the carpet, then usually such a teacher boy says: "Well, what, the hero, how do you drink now?" Mention of heroism here is also painted in ironic tones.
And such examples can be given a lot. But the general meaning must be understandable.
Varieties of irony
- Direct or direct is the case when a person wants to explain his attitude to him with the help of the intonation and of the entire species to him, his actions or actions, for example, when the girl's unsuccessful teaching procedure say "Well, you are beautiful!".
- Anti-brown This is a kind of opposing the irony of the usual, when the advantages refer to the disadvantages in order to strengthen their meaning. For example: "Where to me, fool, up to you!"
- Selfaronia is a kind of irony when a person tears over himself and its own disadvantages, for example, a continuous man, far from athletics, says he is so big, because a master of sports in heavy weight in Lena. Or something else in the same spirit. You can laugh at your own appearance, failures, dubious successes.
- Irony of Socrates is the thinnest variety of irony. Here it is veiled very deeply and hidden well. To understand the true essence of the said, you need to literally decompose the phrase on the molecules. However, a smart person will always distinguish the truth from light and thin mockery.
What irony differs from sarcasm?
- The irony is a good easy teasing, imperious mockery that does not carry goals to insult or humiliate a person.
- Sarcasm on the contrary - the evil mockery statement, which is the nature of criticism.
- It combines irony and sarcasm what is in that, and in another case, the essence is transmitted rather than the tone, which phrase is pronounced than its semantic load.
The irony you need to use skillfully to indicate a person for his shortcomings unobtrusively, but at the same time not to offend, do not turn irony in evil sarcasm or a frank insult.